An Antique Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA AAAA ABAB CDCD AEAE AFAF AAAA GHGH IJIJ KLKM ANANMildewed and gray the marble stairs | A |
Rise from their balustraded urns | A |
To where a chiseled satyr glares | A |
From a luxuriant bed of ferns | A |
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A pebbled walk that labyrinths | A |
'Twixt parallels of verdant box | A |
To where broad based on grotesque plinths | A |
'Mid cushions of moss padded rocks | A |
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Rises a ruined pleasure house | A |
Of shattered column broken dome | B |
Where reveling in thick carouse | A |
The buoyant ivy makes its home | B |
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And here from bank and there from bed | C |
Down the mad rillet's jubilant lymph | D |
The lavish violet's odors shed | C |
In breathings of a fountain nymph | D |
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And where in lichened hoariness | A |
The broken marble dial plate | E |
Basks in the Summer's sultriness | A |
Rich houri roses palpitate | E |
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Voluptuous languid with perfumes | A |
As were the beauties that of old | F |
In damask satins jeweled plumes | A |
With powdered gallants here that strolled | F |
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When slender rapiers proud with gems | A |
Sneered at the sun their haughty hues | A |
And Touchstone wit and apothegms | A |
Laughed down the long cool avenues | A |
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Two pleated bowers of woodbine pave | G |
'Neath all their heaviness of musk | H |
Two fountains of pellucid wave | G |
With sunlight tessellated dusk | H |
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Beholding these I seem to feel | I |
An exodus of earthly sight | J |
An influx of ecstatic weal | I |
Poured thro' my eyes in jets of light | J |
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And so I see the fountains twain | K |
Of hate and love in Arden there | L |
The time of regal Charlemagne | K |
Of Roland and of Oliver | M |
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Rinaldo of Montalban's towers | A |
Sleeps by the spring of hate above | N |
Bows spilling all his face with flowers | A |
Angelica who quaffed of love | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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